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Learning Behavioral Design, Part 3: 5 Lessons for Applying Behavioral Design...
It’s one thing to read about behavioral science or attend a one-time training on how it’s been used to improve programs. It’s another to take those insights and apply them to the real world yourself....
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How Incorporating Behavioral Science into Cash Transfer Programs Is Changing...
Photo by Dimitri Ralovason This post originally appeared on NextBillion. Fighting poverty with direct cash payments is more common now than ever before. In 1997, only three developing countries had...
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Introducing a Behavioral Playbook for Financial Providers
Digital tools such as automated savings and investment, expense tracking, and person-to-person payments save people time and help them manage complex finances. Useful features like these can even...
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Making Saving Easier
“It’s very hard for me to save, because I have so many day-to-day expenses for my small kiosk. Still, at the beginning of the month I manually transfer part of my commission to my savings account,...
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Cash Plus Goals Help Families Invest in Their Children’s Futures
For the last two years, Dorothee, who works in a rice field and makes handicrafts in Madagascar, has been the main provider for her family. Her husband used to be a fisherman until an injury prevented...
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What, Exactly, Are We Saving for?
Saving money, even in small amounts, has countless benefits. It helps low-income households build financial resilience—the ability to manage unforeseen expenses and avoid crises. However, saving is...
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More Opportunities to Support Student Financial Health
The start of a new academic year should be an exciting time for the 19.9 million students who recently began or are continuing in college. But for many students, college also brings stressful...
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Bringing Behavioral Design to NYC Non-profits
BDC participant workshopping a communications piece We’ve spent more than a decade applying behavioral science to complex social problems, all in the service of improving the lives of millions of...
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Building Reading Habits at Home with Behavioral Insights
Early reading habits are predictive of a number of later life outcomes, including higher education attainment and income, yet more than two-thirds of fourth graders in U.S. public schools are not...
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Work Requirements Don’t Work
In 2015, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) prevented 8.4 million people from living in poverty. This essential and effective safety net program helps people with low incomes...
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